Complementary Alternative Cardiovascular Medicine
Complementary Alternative Cardiovascular Medicine
Complementary Alternative Cardiovascular Medicine
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230 <strong>Alternative</strong> <strong>Cardiovascular</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
It is based on these types of individualizing symptoms that differentiate<br />
among the homeopathic medicines considered. Often these differences<br />
seem subtle—and indeed would be largely irrelevant to the<br />
allopathic doctor—but to a homeopath, that which is individually characteristic<br />
of the patient’s complaint is paramount.<br />
Patients who need the remedy Glonoine often suffer from fainting<br />
episodes. We can also think of this remedy for those patients with more<br />
advanced cardiomyopathy and for those whose cardiac symptoms alternate<br />
with headache symptoms. These people present with the tendency<br />
toward confusion that may worsen at night. They are better outside or in<br />
cool air. When the heart symptoms are aggravated, it may cause a hand<br />
tremor, making use of the hands difficult. This remedy is one of the ones<br />
considered when any symptom in the body is accompanied by throbbing<br />
and pulsation along with congestive headaches. Glonoine helps those<br />
patients in the acute phase of sunstroke, when the head is throbbing and<br />
bright red and they are worse from leaning forward and better with<br />
applying cold water to the face.<br />
Those working with cardiac patients would not want to be without the<br />
remedy Lachesis mutans. There is a strong feeling of fullness in the chest<br />
in patients with heart arrhythmias. The feeling of fullness is so severe<br />
that the patient will describe it as a bursting sensation. They often are<br />
worse as they fall asleep and cannot tolerate sleeping on the left side.<br />
They prefer to sleep on the right side or in a sitting position. They are<br />
much worse in the heat and when they become overheated.<br />
If the problem were angina, the Lachesis patient would describe a<br />
cramping pain in the chest, along with the sensation of fullness. It is not<br />
uncommon for those patients needing Lachesis to also have a concomitant<br />
cough during episodes of cardiac symptoms. Because the sense of<br />
fullness in the chest and the neck, these patients are unable to wear any<br />
clothing or jewelry that constricts those areas; in fact, they dislike any<br />
tight clothing, so they present with loose-fitting, collarless clothing.<br />
Because of their extreme warmth, the Lachesis patient commonly wears<br />
sandals year-round.<br />
Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) who require this remedy<br />
will have a tremendous feeling of suffocation. There will be a feeling of<br />
pressure on the chest that is difficult to escape; the patient is awakened<br />
by a feeling of choking and must sit up in bed to regain comfort. Lachesis<br />
can treat sleep apnea in patients with those general symptoms.<br />
Many women will develop cardiac symptoms first during the<br />
perimenopausal years when they are markedly worse, physically and<br />
emotionally. It’s as if without the monthly menstrual discharge, they<br />
suffer. Palpitations or angina may commence during these years. Men-